As Andrew finishes his drink, he looks at some of the items the guy is placing on the bar and says, "Wow, I've never seen runes like that, where did you get that stone?" He then looks over at the book but says nothing more.

Since the oceans are getting more content, could we have a simple option of having larger oceans rather than 1000-5000 blocks? (The new boats could use better purpose with it's improvement of travel and I can't find a reason to use boats when I just go around the so called "Oceans" unless I find a rare island large enough.)

I mean, a simple "Ocean Config" of at least three choices on the world creation tab:

This raises an interesting question though, could it be possible in vanilla minecraft to make something that does generate a sort of power that other builds built in minecraft could utilize beyond just redstone?

Lets just leave all the advanced powery machinery stuff to the mods please. No offense.

I think one way that this is better than a simple mod install is that it can be used seamlessly in multiplayer without having to install mods twice and then teach your friend like he is 1000 years old how to do it.